Nunhead & Queen's Road, Southwark: Safety
Safety
Crime in Nunhead & Queen's Road is well below the London average. You're looking at 108.6 crimes per 1,000 people in 2025, compared to London's 204.5. That's a meaningful difference.
Most neighbouring areas don't do as well. Rye Lane and Peckham both have considerably higher crime rates than here.
The direction of travel is positive. The rate actually went up slightly from 100.0 per 1,000 in 2024 to 108.6 in 2025, but 2026 data so far suggests it's heading down again. Anti-social behaviour has dropped year on year.
It's worth noting that crime here sits slightly above the UK average, which you'd expect in an inner-London neighbourhood rather than anything particular to this area.
Source: police-recorded crime for Nunhead & Queen's Road ward (Metropolitan Police Service, data.police.uk), Jan 2024–Aug 2026; residents from Census 2021. This summary may predate the latest data release; the table below has the current figures.
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Crime rate comparison
Crimes per 1,000 residents, Jan–Dec 2025. Nunhead & Queen's Road ward: Metropolitan Police Service data via data.police.uk; residents from Census 2021. Averages are for all wards in the area over the same months. Planna's safety index uses the latest 12 months instead, so it can differ.
2024
2025
Jan–Aug 2026
Nunhead & Queen's Road ward
Crimes/1,000 residents
113.6
Higher than
UK average (England, Wales & N. Ireland)
98.8
Lower than
London region average
130.2
Neighbouring wards
Similar to
Old Kent Road
122.9
Lower than
Peckham
153
Higher than
Peckham Rye
64.2
Lower than
Rye Lane
219.3
Higher than
Telegraph Hill
72.6
Similar to
New Cross Gate
108.2
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Types of Crime
Share of police-recorded crimes in Nunhead & Queen's Road ward and the London region average, Jan–Dec 2025.
This ward
Regional average
- Violent offences28%24%
- Anti-social behaviour22%21%
- Other theft8%9%
- Vehicle crime8%7%
- Burglary6%4%
- Criminal damage and arson6%5%
- Shoplifting5%8%
- Drugs5%5%
- Public order4%5%
- Robbery3%3%
- Theft from the person2%8%
- Other crime2%1%
- Bicycle theft1%1%
- Possession of weapons1%<1%
